[Wylug-help] Sharing DVD drive under Samba

[Dave Roberts]

I have a linux server running Ubuntu 6.06 with a DVD writer. I have two 
windows workstations connected to the server via samba and I access all 
my data files on the linux box which is also a print server. However, I 
can't access the DVD drive from the workstations. smb.conf is set up as 
follows:

[cdrom]
   comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
   writable = yes
   locking = no
   path = /media/cdrom0
   public = yes

# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
#       cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
#       an entry like this:
#
#       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
#       is mounted on /cdrom
#
;   preexec = /bin/mount media/cdrom0
;   postexec = /bin/umount media/cdrom0

available = yes
browseable = no

...and my fstab file is as follows:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults,noatime        0       0
/dev/hda2       /               ext2    
defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0    1
/dev/hda1       /boot           ext2    defaults,noatime        0       2
/dev/hda6       /home           ext2    defaults,noatime        0       2
/dev/hda5       /usr            ext2    defaults,noatime        0       2
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda        /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0


Any ideas?

Dave Roberts


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